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(Application filed Nov. 28, 1900.)

(No Model.)

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SlPHON-HEAD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 668,469, dated February 19, 1961.

Application filed November 28, 1900. Serial No. 38,063. kNo model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES WALTER, Jr., a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of New York, in the borough of Richmond, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Siphon-Heads, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in heads of siphons for carbonated beverages,

the object of the invention being to provide a siphon-head in which the lever is so mounted therein for the operation of the valve as that no pin. connection for the lever is necessary.

To these ends the invention consists of a siphon-head which comprises a neck provided with a spout and a hollow stem provided at one side with a longitudinal slot, a valve-seat at the interior of the neck, a spindle guided in said stem and provided with a valve adapted to seat against said valve-seat, a spindlehead suitably connected with the spindle and provided with a longitudinal slot into which the upper end of the valve-spindle protrudes, and an operating-lever extending through the slots of said stem and said spindle-head and the inner end of which bears in a seat formed in said stem, said lever being provided with a notch in which the upper end of the valvespindle seats, as will be hereinafter fully described in detail and then pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved siphon-head. Fig. 2 is a vertical central section of the same, parts being in elevation; and Fig. 3 is an enlarged cross-section on line 3 3, Fig. 2.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

Referring to the drawings, A indicates a screw-neck, and B a spout extending laterally from said screw-neck and connecting with a central duct a in the top part of said neck, the inner end of which duct is terminated by means of a valve-seat a. Rising from the screw-neck A is a hollow stem 0, through the contracted lower end of which a valve-spindle D is guided, said valve-spindle being provided at its lower end with a suitable valve d,packed by means of suitable packing d, so that when the valve is raised and seated against valve-seat a the outlet to the spout will be entirely closed. The upper end of the valve-spindle D is provided with a screwthread 01 said screw-threaded portion screwing into the lower end of the spindle-head E, which fits snugly, but so as to he longitudinally movable, in the hollow stem O. (Jonfined between the lower end of the spindlehead E and the bottom of the neck 0 is a helical lifting-spring E, which tends to hold the valve normally against the seat. Alined longitudinal slots 6 e are formed, respectively, in the spindlehead E and the hollowstemO, and through these slots the inner end of the operatingleverGextends,theinner extremity of said lever finding bearing in a recess, seat,

or cavity 6 formed in the interior wall of the hollow stem 0. The upper extremity of the valve-spindle D protrudes into the longitudinal slot 6 in the spindle-head E and engages in a side notch g, formed in the inner end of the operating-lever G. The spring E, which holds the valve normally against its seat, also lifts the operating-lever G and holds it up against the upper ends of the slots e and c. On depressing the outer end of the operatinglever the valve is opened in the usual manner, so that the liquid may flow through the spout B.

A siphon-headconstructed as described, and shown in the drawings, requires no pin connection for the operating-lever, so thatthe siphon-head does not have to be perforated entirely through transversely, as has been necessary where a pivot-pin for the operatinglever has been used. The lever fulcrums in the bearing-seat c and the protruding upper end of the valve-spindle forms a stop or guard against the accidental removal of the operating-lever, while at the same time the connection of the valve-spindle and the lever is such that the lever may oscillate in the usual manner. scribed are readily assembled, and as no pivot-pin for the lever is necessary the constrnction is more workmanlike and more substantial than the siphon-heads formerly in use.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent A siphon-head, consisting of a neck and spout, a valve-seat between the neck and The parts constructed as d.e-'

surface of the inner end of the lever bears against the upper end wall of said slot,whereby the lever is locked in position, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES WALTER, JR.

Witnesses:

PAUL GoEPEL, GEORGE GEIBEL. 

